An open world voxel based sandbox adventure rpg game set on a distant planet. It's the year 2287, one of the first colony ships sent out by Earth arrives at the planet Maria, in the Epsilon Indi Star System. During its landing sequence, it crash into the planet. Some of the colonists survive in lifeboats, but what they find is an unforgiving land filled with creatures ready to outlast the visitors from Earth. Now the survivors must explore, gather, build, create, fight, and ultimately, conquer the land.

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About the Game

It is the year 2287 and one of the first colony ships sent out from Earth arrives at planet Maria, in the Epsilon Indi Star System. Following a terrifying accident during landing, the surviving colonists find themselves facing an unforgiving land, filled with creatures determined to outlast the visitors. They must ingeniously explore, gather, build, create, fight and, ultimately, conquer the land if they want to stay alive.

Planet Explorers is an open world, voxel based, sandbox adventure multiplayer RPG game from Pathea Games. The game uses a new OpenCL system based on the Unity 3D engine that allows players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects in any form and do it anywhere. Featuring third and first person perspective gameplay and single player story lines as well as single and multiplayer adventure maps, players are able to customize their character and create weapons, vehicles and buildings.

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Planet Explorers is an adventure role-playing video game developed and published by Pathea Games. Development began in January 2014, existing as an Early Access game. The game was released on 8 November 2016 for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux on the Steam digital distribution platform.

The gameplay of Planet Explorers allows players to change the terrain, to build walls, bridges and ramps, up to complex structures and buildings with a lot of customization, to save and copy them. Players can create an unlimited amount of objects, including weapons, armor and different vehicles in any form with stats depending on their ingredients/materials, and to do this anywhere. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering and combat.

Gameplay

Planet Explorers is a third-person, sandbox adventure game. Players can build custom vehicles, weapons, VTOL and pretty much anything else and use it in game. There are two major gameplay areas in Planet Explorers, one being the Story mode, the other being Adventure mode. Story mode features a set map and multiple quests that progress throughout the game. Adventure mode is a random procedural map that contains random quests and events, which lets players select the type of planet and climate he wants to visit, so that he can quickly buy goods in such established colony.[1] Further, the game play is a mixture of 3rd person action and adventure, with the player able to use multiple weapons and objects. There are around 70 kinds of creatures and more than 15 kinds of minerals that can be utilized by humans on planet Maria. Although some creatures are as tall as buildings and are fierce enough to kill humans, herbivores tend to be docile.

This sandbox game makes use of a new OpenCL system on the Unity engine, which enables players to alter the terrain and create objects.Story mode

This game mode involves following the main story quest arc, in addition to numerous side quests, to progress through the game. It features a 17X8km world map with many unique characters, landscapes, locations and over 100 types of potential enemies. Players are free to choose on how to play the story, they can fight or be peaceful, build a farm, make food, keep the colonists alive, negotiate with the sentient aliens or defend the perimeter from the local life forms. Story mode also features co-op with other players.Adventure mode

Adventure mode was added to Planet Explorers in Alpha version 0.61. In this mode, the game creates a random procedural map that contains random quests and events. However, the players can select the type of planet and climate. It allows the players to wander freely in an open world, buy templates, resources and equipment.Builder mode

In builder mode, players have access to infinite resources, items and equipment in the game through the inventory menu, and can place or remove them instantly. This mode has no enemies and helps the players focus on building and creating large projects.

Plot

Planet Explorers takes place in the year 2287, one of the first colony ships sent out by Earth arrives at the planet Maria, an unknown planet in the Epsilon Indi Star System. During its landing sequence, something goes wrong, the massive ship loses control and crashes into the planet. What originally was a first colony mission has now turned into a mission for mere survival on an unforgiving planet filled with creatures ready to outlast the visitors from Earth. In order to survive in this new world the survivors will have to explore, gather, build, create, fight or befriend the planet inhabitants, and ultimately, establish a lasting new home.